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TT’s CampusConnect program in the news

UChicago Midwest Trading Competition: The Next Generation Gets a Taste

On April 8, the University of Chicago hosted its fifth iteration of the Midwest Trading Competition, drawing 102 students from some of the most prestigious colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The students got a chance to test their algorithms using Trading Technologies’ TT Platform in a variety of simulations involving pairs trading and options market-making.Read more at John Lothian News – April 21, 2017

Student Trading Organization Showcases Work in Chicago

While other groups worked with money, UW-Madison’s Commodity Trading group used algorithms to exchange soy and corn using a simulation to exhibit their work at a Chicago showcase. The group was the only undergraduate, agricultural-focused group among the displayed teams.Read more at The Daily Cardinal – January 17, 2017

Program Aims to Educate Students on Trading and Risk Management

Joe LeBlanc: Taking A Rare Energy Position

Joe LeBlanc was a 25-year energy trading veteran with experience trading and hedging in both the physical and futures markets when he was cajoled by a former colleague to teach a course in energy trading at Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business. The next year, he became a full-time professor and went about transforming the program and facility into something appropriate for a high-end hedge fund or institutional energy trading desk.Futures Magazine – November 1, 2011

Back to School

When electronic trading was in its infancy, exchanges held simulations for members and clerks to practice trading various markets on a computer screen. These sessions often broke down into sophomoric attempts to amass the largest gains or losses by throwing around unrealistic positions sizes.Futures Magazine – September 1, 2011

Investor Brain

Trading Technologies and Tulane University are holding a trading contest that will wrap up with a live competition Nov. 13-14 at the Freeman School of Business at Tulane in New Orleans.

Students’ Experience with trading Translates into Jobs

The University of Wisconsin’s use of the TT platform in the College of Agricultural & life Sciences.UW March 2016

Virtual Trading Room Offers Real-World Advantage

The statement from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in January had barely been made public before DePaul University finance student Arman Hodzic saw the reaction in the markets. Hodzic watched in real time as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and the yield on the 10-year Treasury reacted to the news.